I am trying to figure out how the back up is performed on my sql as I seem to have quite a few very large BAK files that I want to know if I can delete them.
These files have grown to about 85Gs
The IT group told me that the were going to set up the SQL to back up as a file and then SBS 2003 would back up this file onto the USB drive. The IT people that set this up have really sold me a lot of BS about so much that I have decided to get control of all aspect of the SBS2003.
How to I verify that the SQL is being backed up and can I delete these really big old dated BAK files?
Thanks Kevin..
Hi I have created a job to backup all our database. It works fine and creates .bak files in default folder. I have scheduled the task to run every 4 hours.
My question is how can i modify or program this backup plan to keep the backup files for only last 3 days and delete older backup files?
Hello All! Here is an intresting and challenging question to you all. One of our idiot admin happens to reinstall the SQL Server with out realizing that other are have databases on that server. I have the MDF files on the server. Is there any way I can create the databases and point to that MDF files so that they can have the data and the table structures back. Itired to create the database that way the databse gets created but its having trouble actibvating those files. Some please help. Regards
SQL7: After doing a full backup Enterprise Admin still shows "Transaction log space" in use. Isn't it that way that full backup releases all space formerly used by log files?
Does anybody know of a way to rollback SQL Server 2005 databases back to SQL Server 2000? Is there a way of doing it without resorting to Copy Database Wizard? I love to find a way of attaching a SS 2005 database to a SS 2000 instance without any issues.
I recently upgraded to SS 2005 and I am very unhappy with the SS 2005 and I want to rollback to SS 2000, which was a lot more stable. I am having several major issues that are affecting my whole company's day-to-day operations and the managers are not happy. Some of the issues include night time batch running very sluggish for no apparent reason. This is a biggest problem because it only occurs once or so a week and causes a disturbance with the daily activities when the night time processing isnt completed on time. The rest of the time, the batch processing runs great, even a little better then on SS 2000. I don't believe it is a matter of my application needing to be retuned because if that was the case, then why isn't it running sluggish every night? Also, it's never the same day that the sluggish behavior occurs. If it was occurring on the same night, then I would have something to investigate within our application, but it doesn't. Another issue that I am having involves a night time job that restores a copy of the production database to the Data Warehouse server to be used for updating the data warehouse. Again, most of the time it runs great (~2 1/2 hours), but once or twice a week, it goes stupid and takes 6 1/2 hours for no apparent reason. Again, it is not happening the same day either, which could give me something to invesigate. On SS 2000, this same job ran flawlessly. Never I did I run into situation that the database restoration took that long to run. Even another issue involves a SQL Server Agent Job that was put into suspended state. What's a suspended state and how can I get it out of suspended state? I can find no information about suspended state in BOL. I did a Google and nothing came up. If this suspended state was put in for security reasons, great, but then tell me how I can remove the suspended state. I am also not happy with the fact that I can't get accurate information about the queries that are actively running at that particular moment. In SS 2000, when I noticed high CPU usage on the server, I would run the sp_who2 active stored proc and it would show me all the active thread and how much CPU it was consuming. I would then find the running threads with the highest CPU numbers and investigate the query and see if we could improve it. Now in SS 2005, I get in the same situation and run the sp_who2 stored proc, and there is no smoking gun. All of the active threads are showing very little CPU usage, which I am very suspect of. What the heck happen to sp_who2? I looked at some of the other ways of looking at running processes (i.e... sys.sysprocesses) and they don't appear to be giving the information that I need.
I am very unhappy and I just want to roll back to SS 2000 and wait a couple of years before I upgrade to SS 2005.
Hi, I need to import an SQL string from MS Excel 2003 to SQL SERVER 2000. The string I need to import is composed by 5 different several blocks and looks like:
The detail of the SQL string is at: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=2093921&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=1
I am trying to implement OJ's suggestion: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2117223&SiteID=1 to use multi - batch processing to import the string to SQL SERVER, something like:
Code Snippet Dim SqlCnt, cmd1, cmd2, cmd3 'set the properties and open a connection
cmd1="use my_db" cmd2="create table mytb" cmd3="insert into mytb"
Hello,I'm trying to create a simple back up in the SQL Maintenance Plan that willmake a single back up copy of all database every night at 10 pm. I'd likethe previous nights file to be overwritten, so there will be only a singleback up file for each database (tape back up runs every night, so each daysback up will be saved on tape).Every night the maintenance plan makes a back up of all the databases to anew file with a datetime stamp, meaning the previous nights file stillexists. Even when I check "Remove files older than 22 hours" the previousnights file still exists. Is there any way to create a back up file withoutthe date time stamp so it overwrites the previous nights file?Thanks!Rick
New to Database Mirroring and I have a question about the Principal database server. I have a Database Mirroring setup configured for High-safety with automatic fail over mode using a witness.
When a fail over occurs because of a lost of communication between the principal and mirror, the mirror server takes on theĀ roll of Principal. When communication is returned to the Principal server, at some point does the database that was the previous Principal database automatically go back to being the Principal server?
I need to run two reports each of A5 Size to run back to page and print on single A4 paper means in 1st half Sale bill will be printed and in second half Gate Pass Will Be Printed both report will be on same page and size and shape should be maintained. How to do it.
I've created a linked server (and set up the corresponding schema.ini file) in order to perform bulk-inserts from some CSV text files into SQL tables (from my standpoint the text files are just for reading purposes). The linked server works fine (I can select the data in the files without a problem).
Now the question: is possible to automatically detect when one or more of those files change in order to start the import process automatically? Something like having a trigger created on the CSV files Or there's no easy way to do that so I have, to say something, to create a Job that periodically checks if the files have changed programatically (say, recording each file's timestamp everytime is imported and comparing the recorded value with the current one, or whatever)?
Hello,I am hoping you can help me with the following problem; I need to process the following steps every couple of hours in order to keep our Sql 2000 database a small as possible (the transaction log is 5x bigger than the db).1.back-up the entire database2.truncate the log3.shrink the log4.back-up once again.As you may have determined, I am relatively new to managing a sql server database and while I have found multiple articles online about the topics I need to accomplish, I cannot find any actual examples that explain where I input the coded used to accomplish the above-mentioned steps. I do understand the theory behind the steps I just do not know how to accomplish them!If you know of a well-documented tutorial, please point me in the right direction.Regards.
I proposed on a new server that we separate Data Files, Log Files, tempDB, Backups, etc. onto separate LUNS on a SAN with High Speed Solid State Drives.I was told that with the new technology with solid state SAN's that it would decrease performance and that it did not work the same way as it did when you had RAID 5's etc.I thought that if things were cared out correctly by a SAN Administrator they would know how to configure for optimal performance.
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
I may not be the best forum for this post, however I believe some onecan still help me or direct me somewhere else.I'm finding that win 2003 x64 and SQL 2005 CTP is slower than win 2003and SQL 2000.Machine A: Opteron 2.2 (248) w/ 2 cpus. 8GB memory. SCSI disk array.Windows Enterprise 2003 x64 final release. SQL Server 2005 enterpriseCTP.Machine B: Opeteron 2.2 (248) w/ 2 CPUs. 4GB Memory. IDE Drives.Windows Server 2003 (32bit) and SQL Server 2005 (standard).I'm using Cognos' DecisionStream as the ETL tool (32bit). I have theidentical job on both machines. Machine A is slower to do my nightlybuild (1h 20m) vs. Machine B (50m).I've done no tweaking of the databases. I Used SQL 2005's studio tocopy the database from Machine B to Machine A.The only major difference is the O/S and SQL, the machines are samespeed, however Machine A has twice the memory and faster disk; so Iwould expect it to be faster.Can anyone think of smoking guns I might be missing?TIA
Hi, I am having a problem connecting my .net applications from the application server to the database server. When I run the application from my windows xp (sp2) box it works fine. When I try to connect via SQL Management Studio to the database server from the application server I get the same error. Here is the error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) Here is the Environment: App Server: Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition Inside Company's Firewall/ Network Database Server: Windows Server 2000 Advanced Edition SQL Server 2000 SP4 Remote Connections to the Server is checked Enable Protocols: Named Pipes & TCP/IP TCP/IP Port: 1402 (I don't know why it isn't the default of 1433) The db server is sitting out side the Company's firewall (don't ask me why). I can access it fine from inside the firewall on my XP box but not from windows server 2003. There is a web server outside the our network that also connects to the db server with no problem and that is running Windows Server 2003 Web Edition. I can ping the db server from the app server using the IP address. I tried using the IP address and the port 1402 in my connection string but that didn't work from any machine (XP and Server). I imagine the issue is somehow related to the company's firewall but why would it only block Windows Server 2003 and not XP? What do I tell the network admin to change? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Oran
Hi,Is it possible to install on a Windows server 2003,SQL SERVER 2000 in the folowing configuration :SQL server 7.0 as a default InstanceandSQL server 2000 as a named instance.Thanks for your answer.
Hi, For Asp.net project i have used backend as sql server database.My database name is Traveldb.i want to take the backup for this database in SQL Server as a "Filename.sql". Please tell me the steps to follow to take the backup file as SQL Script File extension.Thanks & Regards,Laxmi
Hi everyone. I just want to ask if the triggers I have created in my tables will be included in the back-up of my database? Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks in advance.
Hi folks,I was working on MS sql server 2005 evalution where i have built a number of databases. However, i came to discove that the evalution version has expried before i finished my work. Now i have disinstalled the sql server 2005 and installed the Sql express edition.My concern here is how can i keep my databases so they can work with sql express edition?Thank you very much in advance.
I am having a nightmare of a time with my Sql Server 2005 Express. My computer crashed on Friday the 13th - of course. I saved all my files onto another drive and wiped out C: I brought everything back in but I started a new file for my Visual Basic projects. After asking questions I found this was a major no-no So I brought my original folder back in. This solved some of my problems I was having with Visual Studio and Visual Web, but I am continuing to have problems with Sql Server. I will explain these two problem they may be related, I don't know. When I run my Visual Website on a server I get this message:
An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file(then my file name)failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
And my second problem is when I attempt to run Sql Server Management Studio Express I get this error message:
There is no editor available for (then my file name) .mdf
Make sure the application for file type(.mdf)is installed.
HI allI want to take a back of my serverthere is 40 data base into my server and i have to take back of every database every day is there any way which can take back up of hole server at one time.regard
I am trying to back up database to a different server. I am able to map the serve to my current ones, however, when I go to Enterprise Manager - back up DB, I can not see the mapped drive from back up file location, I wasn't able to see any other disk location but the local drives.
Can somebody tell me how can I back up database to a different server from Enterprise Manager or any syntax?
Is it possible, into a DTS package, to get back the name of the SQL server on which it is registered (through a property of the DTS package for example) ?
I know it's possible to see the name of a server with the system variable @@servername or this request "Select srvname From master..sysservers" but I don't know how I can allocate the value of these solutions to a variable into an ActiveX script...
I want to schedule an automated nightly backup of a database to another server on the network (backing up a 6.5 database on Server3 to Server5). File sharing is turned on for Server5 with all permissions, so that shouldn't be a problem. Server 3 sees the Server5 backup location fine from the NT Explorer, proving the two servers are talking to each other okay. Both servers have an NT account called SQLServer with the same name and password and full administrative privileges, which Server3's SQL Executive service uses to log on with (SQL Server is not installed on Server5).
When I try to back up to Server5 (whether to Server5DDRIVETBBackupDailyTimeAndBilling.dat or to a mapped drive F:TBBackupDailyTimeAndBilling.dat) an error message is returned saying "[SQL Server] Can't open dump device 'Server5DDRIVETBBackupDailyTimeAndBilling.dat' , device error or device off line. Please consult the SQL Server error log for more details." The error log says "Backup device 'Server5DDRIVETBBackupDailyTimeAndBilling.dat' failed to open, operating system error = 5(Access is denied.)"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Karl Simanonok Professional Presence Providers, Inc.
I am trying to set up an Access db to connect to a SQL server back end. I created a system DSN and then linked the Access db to it; no problem when the Access db is local. When I upload the Access db to the website, it refuses to connect; I keep getting this error message: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] ODBC--connection to 'SQS2008' failed.
Here is the ASP code in the web page (pretty plain vanilla): DIM Connect2 SET Connect2=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.CONNECTION") DSNTemp="Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; " DSNTemp = DSNTemp & "DBQ=" & server.mappath("yetanothertest.mdb") connect2.Open DSNTemp
SET onwash2=Connect2.Execute("SELECT * FROM LineStandardPolicies")
Hi all Hope you can help. I've been using MS Access as a backend content server on websites for some time. However, I want to move to Sql Server but am struggling a bit with some of the concepts.
I want two types of users of the website. 1 User who can view data as a iusr_guest type user (no login) 2 can view/ edit data as a datawriter (website administrator).
With Access I would simply have a table or another db containing user info. If a user logged in and was accepted then a IIS user session would be created and they could edit the db.
Any views on how this type of simple db access should be managed using sql server?
What is the best way to back up sql server to a remote site so that if we had total data loss locally I would be able to restore and get back up and running as quickly as possible. I have a remote file storage option that I use and I currently store a MSAccess version of the db there. I assume there is a much better solution to this. Can someone "upgrade my knowledge" please?
